Data Management
May 28, 2009
RapidEye is the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate its own constellation of Earth observation satellites. The imaging campaigns were concentrated in Europe, the U.S., Brazil and China. Nearly 14 million square miles (or more than 36...
Data Management
May 7, 2009
A decade ago, Iowa-based AgWorks released a product call the Smart Gun. Essentially a ruggedized handheld computer, the Smart Gun was designed to help the custom applicator to track and record all the critical steps involved in doing an...
Data Management
April 16, 2009
RT Commander Version 1.3.8, which is a free update via website download for GreenSeeker owners, includes updated prescriptions for corn and wheat from Virginia Tech and Kansas State University. A new cotton nitrogen algorithm (formula) is included from the...
Data Management
April 9, 2009
For Tim Norris, it seems like a perfectly logical progression.
When we first visited Norris in the fall of 2003, he was heading up a precision consulting division of an Ohio cooperative, helping grower-clients of the company discover the benefits...
Data Management
April 2, 2009
From CropLife Magazine, April, 2009 When John Deere Agri Services chose to shutter its OptiGro remote imagery offering in the spring of 2008, it soon after sold the business to GeoVantage. This was the very same company that Deere...
Data Management
March 26, 2009
The new adapters extend the range of wind monitoring applications that are possible with Onset weather stations, while broadening the company's weather sensor product offerings.
"While we already offer a number of research-grade wind sensors, linking up with RM Young...
Data Management
March 12, 2009
With the economy stammering all around us and so much uncertainty clouding the future, the temptation for many when it comes to field management will be to edge toward "minimum requirements." Anticipating this reaction, the International Plant Nutrition Institute...
Data Management
February 26, 2009
The first of the new products is the GreenSeeker RT200-4 Variable Rate Application and Mapping System. This new four-sensor system retains all of the features and benefits of the flagship six-sensor GreenSeeker RT200 system, but is designed and priced...
Data Management
February 11, 2009
It is not the technology that makes a farmer a precision farmer, but the process of data collection, conversion of data to knowledge, and the application of the knowledge to site-specific management whithin field boundaries. Virtual Farmer A is...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
Wider adoption of remote imagery in agriculture has always been dogged by some critical shortcomings. First, it can prove complicated to interpret and turn into activity in the field. Second, the turnaround time from when an image is taken...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
As we hear talk of a new millennium and the changes the world must confront, agriculture is looking at one of the broadest revolutions the industry has ever experienced. Every segment of the agricultural industry will be touched by...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
Starting at wheat harvest in southern Texas in June and continuing at least until the last double-crop soybean is pulled from the pod in November, thousands of growers will be experiencing their first ride with a yield monitor at...
Data Management
February 5, 2009
RapidEye's prime contractor, MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) has been conducting tests to ensure proper measurement, analysis and verification of the system's performance and product quality.
"This is where MDA hands us the keys to the system," said Wolfgang...
Data Management
January 22, 2009
Ideal for use in a broad range of applications, including agricultural research, crop management, and ecology studies, HOBOnode sensors can transmit high-accuracy air temperature and soil moisture data to a PC several miles away without cables.
Accompanying software displays real-time...
Data Management
January 8, 2009
In a time of increasing pressure on growers to make the most precise decisions about crops, seed, inputs, and harvest, Pioneer's move indicates a desire to provide growers with more information to do just that.
Said Sue Hoover, marketing director,...
Data Management
November 13, 2008
The new Shuttle allows users to conveniently offload data from HOBO U30/NRC systems in the field and safely transport the data back to a PC or Mac computer for analysis.
Key system features include an LCD display that provides current...
Data Management
November 7, 2008
Data delivery via cellular networks is evolving quickly in rural America. From voice to email to the Internet, the cellular data system and the devices that receive the signals are dropping in price -- phones and data plans are...
Data Management
October 29, 2008
There aren't many individuals who could say that "they were there" when remote imagery for agriculture was in its infancy back in the early 1970s. One who can is John Ahlrichs, who did his Masters thesis on remote imagery...
Data Management
October 24, 2008
A graduate of the University of Minnesota majoring in Animal Science and Agronomy, Hansen began his career on the retail side of the business, and gained experience with technology and the power of data management through several managerial positions....
Data Management
September 29, 2008
While there have been international ag events in other places in the world, the United States hasn't hosted something like this before. Charlie O'Brien, AEM Vice President, Agricultural Services, says that manufacturers, dealers, distributors and producers from almost every...
